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  • Home > G for Gender > Gender Watch > Gender and Violence

    Gender and Violence

    Introduction:

    Violence is a teasing behavior that gives others pains whether mental or physical.

    Screen Shot of Gender WatchIn this program "domestic violence" in our society is under discussion. In our society, everyone knows women are the victims of violence that is by males or their in-laws or by the members of the same society; this violence includes both psychological and physical torture.

    According to research, in Pakistan domestic violence on woman is kept on increasing day by day.

    Interviews and ideas:

    Male use to beat their wives or children, they abused them, they use to give statements about their characters, which makes the women mentally ill.

    They do all such cruel activities on the base of traditions and customs. They also make their religion "Islam" as its base. But the matter of fact is that, Islam has given very high rank to the women. Islam is against of even to put extra burden and beating of animals, then how is it possible that violence on wives and children would be permitted.

    The question is why they do so? "Violence" is not a normal behavior. They have some internal personal fears and to cope over them, they become aggressive with their wives and children. So the violence is a base of some sort of fear or frustration. Mentally sick people use to beat and threatening their other people.

    Violence found among two groups:

    • Power group.
    • Non power group.

    Like males are power group and females are weak, parents and children etc.

    Physical torture with females makes them psychological patient, but this psychological illness is never been defined. Women tolerate all such domestic violence for the well being of their family life especially for their children. According to research, in Pakistan, everyday, 10 females are tortured physically.

    Sexual violence is another important matter regarding " violence." Mostly the girls are victims of sexual violence, but after this, blame is always put on innocent girls, it becomes the end of life for them. Society doesn't accept them; sometimes they even have to change their territory.

    Those children who spend their lives by tolerating violence by their parents or by some other source, their personalities grown up in such a way that, element of violence also grown up with them, so in future they also become violent.

     

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